Abundance: Performance
Abundance is an intergenerational dance performance that invites audiences to slow down, rest and reconnect.
Performed by 6 women - 3 professional dancers and 3 volunteer dancers recruited locally at each venue - the work moves through moments of pleasure, weight and release, accompanied by live music from Me Lost Me.
The work begins with a pause - a spacious moment of stillness. People move, howl, rest, leap, reverberate and hold one another.
Colourful duvets fill the space - folded, flung and gathered; worn, sculpted, hidden beneath and danced within - shaping shifting landscapes that emerge and dissolve with playfulness and imagination.
At its centre, Abundance asks what it might mean to feel enough.
The performance sits alongside a wider programme including an installation, clay workshops, community feasts and participatory events exploring collective abundance.
Choreographer: Lizzie Klotz
Collaborators & Performers: Alys North, Eve Walker, Jia-Yu Corti
Volunteer Performers:
Dance City: Anne Hemy, Carolyn George, Liz Highmore
Queen’s Hall: Christine Partridge, Karolyn Hurren, Rowena Plant
Alnwick Playhouse: Heather Banfield, Sandy Lewty, Virginia Kennedy
Sound Designer & Performer: Jayne Dent (Me Lost Me)
Designer: Bethany Wells
Lighting Designer: Barnaby Booth
Dramaturg: Rosa Postlethwaite
Stage Managers: Andrea Scrimshaw, Leah Goldie
Volunteer Performer Support: Amy Becke
Creative Collaborator: Luca Rutherford
Mentors: J Neve Harrington, Rosemary Lee
Captioning Consultant: Chris Fonseca
Chef: Kaltouma Hassaballah
Ceramicist: Megan Randall
Anti Racism Consultant: ID.Y
PR: Joy Parkinson
Photographer: Amelia Read
Videographer: Alex Ayre
Graphic Designer: Brainbox Studios
45 minutes
Dates
Dance City, 7:30pm on 2nd April 2026
Queen’s Hall Arts, 7:30pm on 22nd April 2026
Alnwick Playhouse, 12:30pm on 25th April 2026
Yorkshire Dance as part of Ageless Festival, 10th July 2026
“Soft, sumptuous spoonfuls of duvet, heaped diagonally, draped in dimness. Abundance starts as it means to go on; smiling gently, and oozing comfort.”
“It’s refreshing to see a work that doesn’t try to challenge or provoke its audience, or to alienate it with intellectualism, but instead simply offers a soft place to land.”
Abundance is commissioned by Dance City, The NewBridge Project and Northumberland Dance Development, with R&D support from Moving Art Management through their Seed to Stage Micro-Commissions, and is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.